Jerrod Carmichael: Don’t Be Gay – Review

5th June 2025

Jerrod Carmichael: Don’t Be Gay – Review. By Christopher Patterson.

Querulous and Fractionally Unfeigned

Don’t Be Gay is from the school of The Carmichael Show, and adds little to the underwhelming reputation Carmichael has obtained from memory. He adds little shade to nuance, and speaks too simply. The great comedians take a walk and make a mile out of it, the reverse is apparent in Carmichael. It risks the uncomfortability of Gervais‘ and keeps the light-hearted tone often attributed to litter American humor.

What I find in this farceur-hour is truthfulness addled with humor. It’s notably common to find un-developed half-wits use uninteresting and exhausting “self-experience” as the tag line, rather than attempt the risk of developing an entirely-informed, un-trite originality.

I find my school of thought chief as a fellow Carolinian. I am thankfully not born from the unobliging and rancid North, and from one whisper to another, it appeals to the insufficient humor Carmichael follows. It reminds me all too often of the girl I once knew in my jeune and nimble years. A fellow Northerner believed her life so convivially electrical and piercingly, prolifically, unwontedly central aside from metaphysically virginal, yet lacked the aesthetic and sufficient depth to which it is called and alas recalled. Carmichael speaks in absolutes as a man who led a life he continually disparages exercising or undergoing. He orates and materializes to me as a overindulged hoi polloi ignoramus with seldom botherations. And instead of canvassing the intrepid brushstroke of temps for province, believes in the follis of his onlookers. A reenacted Jenny “from the block.” He has a most unappetizing and ostensible shine in his development of the witticism.

But to peddle on hard beatific, rhapsodic extolls, Carmichael has non-edifying charisma, even if it’s being sodomized the more he blathers. Regardless, that doesn’t evade the eloquent command he possesses from coming out. He has furnished a credible performance, that exceptionally lives up to his previous, for worse and the better. While he lacks the comedians touch, he has the minute microcosms of distinct conceptions. But the energy is too often eliminated by flavorless recollections. While easy to instill pity on the acceptance of sexual preference, it grows vapid with age. There’s only so-much of the copious saddening, uncomplicated, and unsophisticated one can clasp. And despite uniformed artistic decisions, Carmichael is a maddening pleb. He has not learned from the best, rather from the ostentatiously privileged. He attempts to appeal to the common-mind, yet attempts to pitiably separate himself. A narcissism seems to play the part, as when viewing the stand-up, it’s exhausting to see an average mind fight for the right of a singular with no development. Rather than learning from who taught the best, he has seen clips of the learned and pervading his day seemingly with folly. Those who escape effort don’t receive ovation. Or I may be mistaken, with the eye-rolling superlatives spined around this supposed “seminal comic.”

Carmichael’s humor is that of the awkward mixed with the heart whelming, but from being indecisioned, loses both appraisals. The punchline is the chance for change, except if your Carmichael. His inartistic fluff aims to the punchline but delivers no emotion. His start of the joke is as colorless as the end of.

To those who like tainted disagreements would argue a disarmingly lukewarm humorist doesn’t qualify or nesccitie for worthwhile or eccentric technique. His credibility is in his minimal effort to be himself. To that, I would cite the “school of resentment” et appelez ça un après-midi de longueur.

Carmichael often condemns, with bad presentation, the hate against same-sex love and people of different appearances. Yet never furthers or refurnishes consensus nor opinion, rather states and manifests the scarcely distinguishable and atypically expects a room of endeared delectation. It would be astounding to be impressed at this resoundingly prototypical, partial production. Comedians who concern themselves with solely injustice often have no craft beyond copied words from their predecessor. They envision problematic, systematic problems but rather than aim a sound solution, solely speak in reputations and repetitions. But don’t confuse the oblivious and obvious, comedians who truly value being liberal-minded are pulsing. Rather, this is to those who speak the talk who don’t actually walk the walk. Carmichael cleans the wound, but puts glue on it. He follows the inefficient rules of thought his self-titled series exhorted: speak of the complication, avoid considering riposte, retort, answers or the solution. It’s a mind of great guesses, but solely in the range of debut. The tragedia is how often he has extorted his defects as benefacts.

To those who say Carmichael lost his style with experience of lost age, I bring you back to his self-titled TV debut. While it was humorously clear in its dictation, the plot was flamboyantly, extensively, heedfully flat. I brought up a girl I was in the shadow of, but in fact Carmichael mirrors a boy before my graduation. He was mediocre in talent but, like another dear friend of me, could exist in the picture by simply turning the lip. Yet as with all the untalented, this brought a most unenviable vanity and a condescension I had not yet seen in a man. But when taken out of focus, as with all wrathful tigers, his ego was deterred with carefree indifferency. Carmichael reigns that way. He is another of those who would like to live like “common people,” rather than embracing the ordinary. In a fellow hypocrites point of view, he Americanizes his tongue with timid, unrealistic disillusionment. His repartees aren’t invariably farcical, rather routinely aching, detrimental, pernicious and abrasive. The japes on race and sex aren’t incomparably alternative, rather an inebriated daily dozen and opaque.

VERDICT

What keeps me clapping is the great expectations his tender soul sets. He may not be a man of impassioned nor expected wit or of intentive, inventive, un-vain character, but he can be quite sedated and of favor. It is somewhat hard to write an un-resisted word of fair vigor to this man, as when it’s read, a puppy is being put to sleep. I avoid the deranged masochists and would prefer not to assault my understanding. I’m not despairing to say Carmichael has his forcibly telling gems, and likewise when I speak of the unlearned, unoriginal, clumsy amusements of character scattered all over his unvivid stamp. His criterion fits into the un-radical rectitude district and pedigree of stand-up, with the tactful discerns often slithering and gliding onto the dreadful and conceited.

2/5

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